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Re:A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive) by ivanhoe on Friday September 04, 2020 @04:55AM (#24373099)
Isn't that just the decimal part? In my mother tongue (Serbo-Croatian) it's common to call this just the decimals - e.g. in 12.34 the decimals would be 34... I'm really surprised that English doesn't have a similar short name for this?
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Re:A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive) by 0x76 on Friday September 04, 2020 @05:06AM (#24373159)
Would that include 1 however? If you take the decimal part of something then there is no difference between 0.00 and 1.00 which is I think part of the problem here
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